INDEX, 



451 



Street, A. K. , on vocabulary of a young 

 child, 143, 144 



Substantive. See Noun and Verb 



Sullivan, Sir J., on talking birds, 130 



Sully, J., on ideas, 40, 41 ; on illusions 

 of perception, 49 ; on rise of self- 

 consciousness in the growing child, 

 201-203, 207, 210, 212 



Sweet, on animistic thought of primitive 

 man, 275 ; on the evolution of gram- 

 matical forms, 306, 315, 316 



Syntax, of gesture-language, 107-120 ; 

 of different spoken languages, 246, 

 247 ; of gesture-language in relation 

 to that of early speech, 339-342, 385 



Syriac language. See Language 



Taine, on psych ogenesis of the child, 

 26, 66, 67, 180, 181 ; on abstract 

 ideas, 31, 32 ; on self-consciousness, 

 212 



Thought, distinguished from reason, 

 12 ; absent in brutes, 29, 30 ; de- 

 pendent on language, 30, 31 ; simplest 

 element of, 165, 174, 215, 216; ani- 

 mistic, of primitive and savage man, 

 275 ; not necessary to naming, 226, 



336-339 

 Toads, understanding by, of tones of 



human voice, 124 

 Tone. See Language 

 Tools, said to be only used by man, 19 ; 

 names of, derived from activities re- 

 quiring only natural organs, 345-347 ; 

 used by monkeys, 382 

 Threlkeld on language of savage?, 349 

 Transposition. See Languages 

 Tschudi, Baron von, on the Khetshua 



language, 262, 263 

 Turkish language. See Language 

 Tylor, on sign-making by Indians and 

 deaf-mutes, 105-108, 113-117; on 

 articulate sounds instinctively made by 

 deaf-mutes, 122 ; on ideation of deaf- 

 mutes, 150 



Varro on roots of Latin, 267 



Verbs, appropriately used by parrots, 

 130, 152; substantive, 167, 308-312; 

 early use of, by children, 219; early 

 origin of, 274 ; not differentiated in 

 early forms of speech, 295 et seq. ; 

 development of, 275, 307, 308, 

 385, 386 



Voice. See Language 



Volition of man and brutes compared, 8 



W 



Waitz, Professor, on self-consciousness, 

 212 ; on the sentence as the unit of 

 language, 296 



Wallace, A. R., on intelligence of savage 

 man in relation to his cerebral develop- 

 ment, 15, 16 



Ward on the descent of man, 365 



Wasps, sign-making by, 88-90 



Watson on understanding of words by 

 brutes, 125 



Wedgwood, on roots of language, 268 ; 

 on onomatopoeia, 2S8 



Westropp, H. M., on intelligence of a 

 bear, 51 



Whitney, Professor, on dependence of 

 thought upon words, %'i, ; on superiority 

 of voice to gesture in sign-making, 

 147, 148 ; on our ignorance of poly- 

 synthetic languages, 255, 256 ; on 

 monosyllabic origin of language, 267 ; 

 on civilization of the Aryan race, 272 ; 

 on the growth of language, 290 ; on 

 priority of words to sentences, 333, 

 334 ; on fundamental metaphor, 343 ; 

 on the possibly speechless condition of 

 primitive man, 369 



Wildman on bees understanding tones 

 of human voice, 124 



Wilkes, Dr. S., on talking birds, 131, 



132, 136 

 Will. See Volition 

 Wolf, intelligence of, 53 

 I Wright, Chauncey, on language in tela- 



